Starting from zero : reconstructing downtown New York / / Michael Sorkin

• Autore: Sorkin Michael <1948-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (151 p.)
• Disciplina: 711/.4/097471
• Soggetto topico: Architecture - New York (State) - New York - History - 21st century; City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc; World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; After the Fall; What Remains; First Response; The Center cannot Hold; A Plan for Downtown; Six Months; Thinking Inside the Box; Crossing the Site; The Dimensions of Aura; A Memorial; The World Peace Dome; Herbert's List; The Lotus; Security; A Brief for Reconstruction; Who Decides?; And then There were Two; In the End the Void; Back to Zero
• Sommario/riassunto: Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin develops his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of chronologically organized essays illustrated with full-color images of his own plans. Mixing his inimitable brand of social criticism with more personal reflections, Starting From Zero offers a striving challenge to the Ground Zero redevelopment plan recently chosen by New York's establishment insiders.
• Titolo autorizzato: Starting from zero
• ISBN: 0-415-94737-5; 1-315-78677-X; 1-317-72151-9; 1-317-72152-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453757003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II